The social network is trying to become a political tool by hiring former senior political campaign officials who have inside knowledge of how the general election campaigns work. Facebook’s recruits include a former Downing Street adviser to David Cameron. The company explained that their role is to help politicians and governments make good use of the social media.

BitTorrent developers have recently unveiled plans for their popular file-sharing client uTorrent. The most important change is moving the app to the web browser: in other words, uTorrent will run in your default browser, with a revamped interface and better streaming experience.

About 50% of adult Americans’ photos are stored in facial recognition databases used by the FBI, without their knowledge or consent. The agency uses these databases in the hunt for suspected criminals, although roughly 4/5 pictures in the FBI’s network are non-criminal entries, like photos from driver’s licenses and passports. However, the algorithms used to identify matches fail about 15% of the time. Black people are more likely to misidentify than white people.

Sellers of "fully" loaded Kodi boxes were trying to have a Canada sales ban lifted, but failed. The Federal Court granted an injunction 10 months ago following the request of content producers and cable companies who targeted sellers of Kodi and Showbox-enabled devices. Now this decision was upheld.

Windows 10 users didn’t like the way Microsoft inserted adverts for its OneDrive cloud service directly into the File Explorer. These adverts show up when you are trying to manage files in a dedicated pane at the top of the Quick Access view within File Explorer. Microsoft explained that such ads are part of the so-called “sync provider notifications” in the new Windows 10 Creators Update. It is beta testing at the moment and is scheduled to roll out to all users in 2017.

The tech giant changed its mind and stopped disabling the accounts of customers who resold Google’s new Pixel phones. The decision was made after facing multiple complaints over Google’s imposition of a “digital death penalty” for a minor infraction. Google has already emailed users who had been banned and notified them that it had re-enabled their accounts. Originally, users had been disabled for taking advantage of tax loopholes to earn a profit reselling the device.

Mozilla’s Firefox introduced Firefox Focus – a new browser that offers iPhone users private web surfing. This was an unexpected move from the company that has often struggled against the forces of inertia. Instead of making attempts to beat the might of Apple’s ability to dictate the default browser on iOS, Mozilla created the category of “second browser”, and owned that.

Microsoft criticized Google for early bug disclosure, after the search giant told the public about a critical Windows bug as soon as 10 days after informing the software maker about it. The bug in question allows privilege escalation in Windows and was discovered by Google two weeks ago. Hackers can use it to get broad access, and Google actually believes they are already actively doing it.

Mozilla Firefox has disabled a feature allowing websites to see how much battery life a visitor has left. This move was made after obtaining research results showing that this information could be used to track browsers. The feature was called the battery status API and let websites request information about the capacity of a visitor’s device, including such data as whether or not it’s plugged in and charging, how long the battery can last until it’s empty, and what is the current percentage of charge remaining. Aside from Firefox, Chrome and Opera also brought the battery status API to the public.

Just in time for a highly charged presidential election, Google News has introduced a new fact check feature to avoid confusion between fact and fiction. The feature will appear as a label among news search results, together with other established labels like opinion, local source and highly cited.